11.   Dropping that demand could help produce a quick and welcome agreement.

12.   Friday, however, Primakov signaled that Moscow was dropping the demand for overall limits on NATO weapons.

13.   Gonzalez, after meeting with his lawyer, dropped his demand for an entourage.

14.   Having won on that issue, management dropped its demand to shift the nurses into a less expensive health plan.

15.   He persuaded the rebel leaders to drop their demand for millions of dollars in exchange for tons of food along with jeeps and radios.

16.   He said he dropped his demand when management insisted that in exchange it be given the right to lay off experienced workers when hospitals merge.

17.   He told Israeli television on Friday evening that he was dropping his demand for an absolute calm lasting seven days before undertaking an American-brokered cease-fire plan.

18.   Holvis Senior Vice President Christophe Zumstein said he expects that International Paper will now drop that demand.

19.   In addition, the company dropped its demand to pull out of the multiemployer pension plans.

20.   In exchange, Israel dropped its demands to extradite accused terrorists.